I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 122 Temporarily Become Lord of Athens
The second day of Pandion and Erechtheus' expedition to the tribe of Lavrio.

Although it was breakfast time, Roy was still in bed.

Kaone, who was lying in Roy's arms, asked shyly.

"Honey, when do you want me to wake up?"

"It's so cold outside now, just covering me with a thin quilt will definitely freeze my body. So you have to keep warming my bed, and you can't get up until I get up."

Kaone couldn't help but said.

"Wait a while and Procne and Philomela will come. Aren't you afraid that they will be jealous?"

"As long as I don't have a baby with you first, Procne won't be really angry."

As soon as Roy finished speaking, the wooden door of the stone house was pushed open from the outside.

Then Philomela came in and spoke.

"Brother Roy! It's not good, mother—"

Before she finished speaking, Philomela stared at Chione lying in Luoy's arms with wide eyes.

Seeing the angry expression on Philomela's face, Kaone immediately separated from Roy.

Roy asked proactively.

"What happened, Philomela?"

Only then did Philomela come to her senses, and she walked to the stone bed and glared at Kaone, then said to Roy.

"Brother Roy, my mother fell ill."

Madame Zeuxipper fell ill—

Even in normal times, this is considered a big deal.

What's more, Pandion and Erechtheus are now on an expedition to the Lavrio tribe, and the power to manage the city of Athens has been handed over to his wife Zeuxiper.

Zeuxiper's illness affects everyone in Athens.

Roy immediately sat up and said.

"Since my mother-in-law is ill, who will manage the city of Athens?"

"Now that my father and brother Erechtheus are away, the city of Athens is of course managed by my sister."

Philomela frowned and said.

"But my sister and I have no experience in managing tens of thousands of people, so my sister asked me to come to you for help, and you and my sister will manage the city of Athens together."

Manage the city of Athens - this is the power that the supreme ruler of the city of Athens can have.

Roy originally thought that it would take a long time for him to get this power.

I didn't expect to be able to manage the city of Athens with Procne now.

The stone house of the Pandion family.

Roy and Philomela hurried into the hall, and saw Procne sitting behind the stone table, giving orders to the four little chiefs.

Seeing Roy and Philomela, Procne suppressed his joy and said to the four little chiefs.

"If there is nothing else, you all go out first!"

After the four little chiefs left, Procne immediately said with relief.

"Brother Roy, you are finally here."

Roy came to sit down next to Procne, held her in his arms and said with concern.

"It seems that managing the city of Athens puts a lot of pressure on you."

Procne lay in Roy's arms and said.

"After all, my management has made a mistake. Maybe many people will starve to death. Brother Roy! Come and help me manage the city of Athens, so that I can avoid my mistakes."

Roy nodded.

"Your main job now is to manage the distribution of food?"

"Yes! Our city of Athens is not rich in food, so there must be no mistakes in the distribution of food. If there is too much food distributed to them, our food reserves will not last until the harvest season, and hundreds of thousands of people will starve to death. There will be less food distributed to them, and some people will starve or even starve to death. I don’t want to starve others because of my mistakes, so every decision I make scares me.”

Philomela sat down on Roy's right and said.

"Brother Roy, do you have any good ways to manage the city of Athens?"

"Compared with managing the city of Athens, I am more concerned about my mother-in-law's physical condition now."

"Mother is just a little bit physically and mentally exhausted, but in fact there is nothing serious about her body."

"It turns out that my mother-in-law has a heart disease."

Roy said with a smile.

"Since the mother-in-law is not sick, let's study how to manage the city of Athens now. There is a saying that if you have food in your hands, don't panic. Procne! You will be full of fear of managing the city of Athens by yourself, and worry that your management will make mistakes. It’s because you don’t know how much food is in the city of Athens. So from now on, we need to record the food and various supplies in the city of Athens with paper and pen. With the data that you can understand at a glance, you can know what your decision is Right or wrong."

"Brother Luoy wants me to make an account book? I'll take paper and pen now and count the grain and various supplies in Athens into an account book."

After Procne hurriedly left, Philomela said with a smile.

"My mother asked my sister to manage the city of Athens, but after brother Roy came, my sister became the person under your management. After that, the city of Athens will actually be managed by brother Roy."

"After all, in this era, the wife is the husband's private property, and it is natural for the wife to obey her husband's orders. If Procne wants to be a good wife, she must obey my orders."

After listening to Roy's words, Philomela said with a puffy face.

"I don't want to obey brother Roy's orders! I want to be with brother Roy and sister forever, so that the three of us can maintain our current relationship forever, instead of becoming an obedient wife by brother Roy's side like my sister Brother Roy! From now on, we will only be a couple in name, but in fact I still regard you as my elder brother, and you still regard me as my younger sister, do you think it’s okay?"

"As long as you fulfill your duties as a wife, I also want you to always be my lovely sister."

Philomela nodded immediately and said.

"Even if we are only a couple in name, I will fulfill my wife's obligation to sleep for her husband and have children."

Although the city of Athens is only a small city with a population of tens of thousands, it is also a cumbersome task to count the grain and various supplies of the city of Athens.

In the blink of an eye, it was the afternoon, and Procne happily came to Roy with the account book he had just prepared and said.

"Brother Luoy, I can finally feel at ease now. As long as the commercial olive oil is replaced with grain, the grain in Athens City can fully support the existing tens of thousands of people until the harvest season, so I can manage Athens City with peace of mind."

After Roy took Procne's account book and read it carefully, he immediately frowned.

Although the food in the city of Athens is enough to feed the existing tens of thousands of people, this is the result of not counting the [-] Serifos people.

In order for the four thousand Serifos people to survive until the harvest season, the city of Athens needs at least 50 catties of additional grain.

If 50 catties of food cannot be obtained, hundreds of thousands of Seriphos people will starve to death.

"50 catties of grain! What should I use as a commodity in exchange for 50 catties of grain? It's too late to cultivate pearls. Do I want to be a pirate to rob other areas and let people in other areas starve to death?"

Just as Roy was thinking about ways to obtain 50 catties of grain, an Athenian soldier hurried in and said.

"My lord priest! Our fishermen found a fleet heading towards Athens. The fleet consisted of at least ten large ships, and all of them were fully armed soldiers."

(End of this chapter)